"Mr. Anderson. ”

In the hotel's café, Gaspar Nou looked at Ronan and asked, "I wonder if you're still interested in the film "Irrevocable"?"

In fact, the purpose of participating in this Cannes Film Festival is to sell the film, and the situation was not bad before, Monica Bellucci won a lot of fame after "The Beautiful Legend of Sicily", and this larger-scale work should be bought by more people according to common sense.

But after the premiere of the film, the situation took a turn for the worse, not only did the Cannes Film Festival officials ask them to leave, but the distributors also lost interest.

Gaspar Nou wondered, isn't it just a scene of aggression, can it be so sensitive?

Ronan put down the coffee in his hand, and didn't show disdain or anything like that because Gaspar Nou came back to look for it, which was too low-level as a businessman.

"$300,000. Ronan still made the offer that day: "Embassy Pictures buys out all the North American rights to "Irrevocable" at one time. ”

Gaspar Nou gritted his teeth and said, "Lump sum payment in place?"

Ronan nodded, "No problem." ”

"Okay!" Gaspar Nou decided: "Hopefully the transaction will be completed before I leave Cannes." ”

Ronan said, "If you have time, I can have someone work with you right now." ”

When Gaspar Nou said goodbye and left, a staff member of the embassy film company accompanied him to deal with related matters.

There are too many films in the world that want to squeeze into the world's largest film market, and the distribution and copyright prices of many films are unbelievable, and Ronan has known some about it in his previous life, even the kind of thing that I give you the copyright for free, as long as it can be released in North American theaters.

Not only did Gaspar Nou take the initiative to find Ronan, but even that Stephen Chow found Ronan before the end of the Cannes Film Festival and sold the North American rights to "Shaolin Football" to Embassy Pictures for $200,000.

Frankly speaking, when the cost of copying and other expenses is included, the $200,000 may not be able to recoup the cost of relying solely on theatrical screenings.

As a Hollywood film producer and company owner, Ronan has a certain ability to predict this, and even if "Irrevocable" is released in North America with an NC-17 rating, it is very likely that there will be more audiences than "Shaolin Football".

Cultural differences cannot be ignored.

This trip to Cannes did not return empty-handed, anyway, I also bought the copyrights of two films, although the revenue capacity of the theater chain is not strong, but it can follow the offline operation strategy of a long stream.

Without waiting for the Cannes Film Festival to end, Ronan rushed back to Los Angeles with Jared Katzenberg to attend the North American premiere of "Shrek" together.

At the premiere, Ronan met Steven Spielberg.

"I heard that the filming of "Band of Brothers" has been completed?" Ronan regretted.

Spielberg, wearing disc glasses, said, "I finished filming last month and has moved on to post-production." ”

Although the two have opinions about each other, they are far from the point where they will pinch each other when they meet, and Spielberg said: "I will have time to watch the premiere then." ”

Ronan smiled and said, "I must go." ”

In recent months, the turnover rate of Embassy Pictures employees has been within a manageable range, and after DreamWorks' poaching failed to achieve the goal of establishing overseas distribution channels, it seems that it has stopped staring at Embassy Pictures.

In fact, in any company, it is normal for ordinary employees to come and go, as long as the core team can be stabilized, there will generally be no problems.

Ronan had led a team in his previous life, so he naturally understood this truth.

"That's right. Ronan asked curiously, "What day is the premiere?"

Spielberg replied, "HBO, September 9." ”

Ronan nodded and didn't say anything more, I don't know who made it on this premiere day, and it is estimated that the ratings after the first episode may be affected.

There is no doubt about the excellence and revenue capacity of "Band of Brothers", but the film is shot in a realistic style, will the audience still be in the mood to watch such a brutal TV episode?

The ratings for the premiere may not be too good.

"Band of Brothers" will become a classic and even a benchmark for World War II film and television dramas, Ronan is sure of this, so it is quite a pity.

I found this profitable project, but I couldn't invest in it......

I can only say that I came to Los Angeles too late, and I don't know the author of the original book.

In Ronan's previous life, "Band of Brothers" was often pulled out for comparison with oriental dramas, but in fact, there were not many World War II dramas or movies made by Hollywood.

Strictly speaking, Garrison's Expendables is magical enough.

Ruffian Quentin's "Inglourious Basterds" not only blew up the balls of ** high-ranking officials, but also directly turned Hitler into a hornet's nest.

Like a grenade bombing an airplane, it is not an original of the Eastern Kingdom.

There is a film in France where a soldier waves a unicorn arm, throws a grenade into the sky, and then blows up a German fighter.

There is a film called "Ukrainian Partisans", the actor plays a drunken fist against the German soldiers after drinking, which can make Huang Feihong bow down.

There are also various dramas and films made by Korea, the largest in the universe, which are simply countless.

As for the military discipline of American GIs, it has been the focus of the world's complaints since World War II.

In his previous life, Ronan read the war diary of a Chinese American soldier on the Internet, telling that they drove an armored car on a mission, passing by an Iraqi village with very narrow streets.

The soldier's car was tossed and turned, fearing that he would run into the Iraqi house.

Then their mad dog company commander drove straight over and knocked down the entire street wall.

The real reason why the company commander dared to do this was because someone had his back - Founding Father Franklin.

The next day, the battalion accountant took the check book and went from house to house writing checks to lose money, and the value of a wall was equivalent to half a year's income of an Iraqi.

Then, after a few days, they passed by again, and found that all the courtyard walls had been repaired in their original places, and waited for the imperial army to pass by again and continue to touch porcelain.

The Chinese GI estimated that the village would be able to eat until the U.S. troops withdrew from Iraq.

Why does the US military have such a good reputation in Europe? It may be that it is a felony to be strong, and prostitution is just a detention, and there is no criminal record.

"Shrek" unexpectedly exploded in North America, and Cinema Score passed on the survey data to DreamWorks Animation Studios after its premiere, and the theater audience scored an average of "A+" on the spot, predicting that the North American box office would be around $250 million!

After the first-week box office in North America was released, DreamWorks Animation Studios was even more boiling, with a first-week box office of $42.34 million.

It's not a high number, but it has set a first-week box office record for an animated feature film since the establishment of DreamWorks Animation Studios, and the production cost of this film is only $60 million, and because it is a non-key project, DreamWorks has not done much publicity and marketing before.

Ronan is also very happy that the animated feature films that are selling well in North America are not bad at the overseas box office.

And the earliest market to be released overseas was also two weeks after the release in North America, which is also what he meant, waiting for the word-of-mouth of "Shrek" and the North American box office to explode!

At that time, with the blessing of word-of-mouth and box office, the overseas box office and even offline income of "Shrek" will definitely not be much worse.

What's really surprising is that in the second weekend of its release in North America, the weekend box office of "Shrek" rose instead of falling, although it rose by less than one percentage point, but the box office of $42.5 million not only allowed the film to continue to sit firmly on the top spot of the box office list, but also pushed the North American box office past $100 million.

"Shrek" showed everyone with its explosive word-of-mouth and box office that DreamWorks Animation Studios is entering the top ranks.

The rise of DreamWorks Animation Studios and Pixar Studios proves that Disney's traditional Prince and Princess cartoon model has become completely outdated, and Disney Animation Studios will soon face an immediacy or death situation.

Only Ronan knows that the key to the change in Disney Animation Studios lies in Pixar Studios.

By the third weekend in North America, the traditional Memorial Day, "Shrek" still maintained an extremely stable trend in the face of competition for the release of the war blockbuster "Pearl Harbor", only down 34 percent from the previous weekend, and retreated to the second place at the box office with $28.18 million.

This week's box office leader is none other than Pearl Harbor.

The box office performance of 55.62 million US dollars seems to be quite good, but the extremely poor reputation will inevitably affect the subsequent trend.

From the media to film critics to ordinary audiences, the overwhelming number of bad reviews almost drowned "Pearl Harbor" like a bomb dropped by the Japanese.

If the influence of film critics on summer blockbusters can be ignored, the negative word-of-mouth of the media and the audience will be quite fatal.

And most of the negative reviews, except for Michael Bay's explosion as always, are basically all focused on the three protagonists of Josh Hartnett, Ben Affleck and Kate Beckinsale.

The clichéd bloody story between the three protagonists, as well as the clumsy performances, were criticized from beginning to end.

"The performances of the protagonists are quite poor, Ben Affleck only plays the role of a bull, probably not far from his own temperament, Josh Hartnett is a bit like the young Richard Gere, quite a star but not very high acting skills, British actress Kate Beckinsale seems to imitate Nicole Kidman, but there is no charm to speak of. ”

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Kate Beckinsale is really a bit too much of an imitation of Nicole Kidman in this film.

"Pearl Harbor" was produced with a promotional fee of up to $200 million or even more, and if Disney wanted to recover it, Disney had to find a way.

Perhaps no one thought that Michael Bay, who has always been steady in commercial films, would make so many audiences cry out for his film this time.

You know, before Michael Bay was definitely one of the favorite directors of the North American teenage audience.

Presumably Michael Bay also wants to do something about himself.